About “Uncommon Valor: A Vietnam Story”

Jedi Mind Tricks' astonishing ode to one of the most horrific episodes in American and Vietnamese history, the Vietnam War of the 1950s and ‘60s, benefits from the fiery authenticity of R.A. the Rugged Man’s mile-a-minute verse, based on the true story of his father, John A. Thorburn. From the second R.A. the Rugged Manpicks up the mic, we experience a blistering auditory assault unparalleled in hip-hop.

My verse is the completely true story about my father Staff Sgt. John A. Thorburn, he’s a highly decorated war hero, shot down begind enemy lines in Vietnam, he survived but came home affected by Agent Orange causing 2 of his children to be born severely handicapped. When I wrote this song in 2006 only my brother Maxx had passed away but since then my sister Dee Dee also passed away in 2007. The Source gave me quotable of the month for this joint. After all the years of me spitting incredible verses, I was wondering when the fuck they would give me my God Damn Quotable already. But they finally got it right with this one.